Happy New Year

Open from 2pm for recover drinks and hearty hangover food

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

‘Chubby Knuckles is a chirpy night full of chirpy songs, with chirpy chaps on the decks. It happens on the first Friday of every month in Telford’s Warehouse. The evening starts with people yapping, followed by toe tapping with some hand clapping and almost always finishes with 2pac rapping.’

Some artists to have played… Rook & The Ravens, The Jar Family, The Loving Cup, The Thespians, The Hummingbirds, John Fairhurst, Tiro Lark, The Quangos

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

Tony (Anthony Green) Bear is a DJ, multi instrumentalist and composer based in Chester, North West England. As drummer and founding member of ‘ahead of their time’(!) psychedelic space funk pioneers ‘The Fourth Egg’, Tonys’ tentative steps into the world of music began in his early teens.

Throughout the 1990?s Tony studied music and media production at South Cheshire College, West Cheshire College and The North East Wales Institute (now Glyndwr University) in Wrexham.
Through gigging with his band, Tony met and became friendly with a bunch of local djs/promoters and there began his love affair with nightclubs, loud sound systems and entertaining audiences with music in a completely different way from just sitting behind a drum kit or playing the guitar.

“Having been a music fan for years I was already buying most of the records that my mates were playing in the clubs and when I got fed up with being in bands it seemed like an obvious and natural thing to do to switch to djing. It meant I still got the ‘gig buzz’ but without having to put up with a bunch of unreliable musicians and their ‘oh no yoko’ girlfriends.”

Over the next few years, through a combination of luck, bad luck, stupidity and dogged perseverance, Tony has gigged in and around the North West/North Wales/Merseyside area in a variety of different clubs and to a wide range of audiences. Tony was also a resident DJ at John Lockes’ infamous ‘Trash’ night (Fridays @ High Society, Rafaels, Love Street) for the best part of a decade.

“If you care about what you do, and as the years roll by, your appreciation and love for music deepens somewhat. Obviously, you’re going to want to express that when you go out and play music to people. When I go clubbing or to a gig, I want to hear a satisfyingly wide range of tunes plus a bunch of stuff I don’t know. That’s how we learn. I don’t want to hear the same beat all night or the repetitive nostalgia of somebody elses’ half remebered student yesteryears. But, hey, let’s not get all philosophical about this, it’s meant to be a laugh isn’t it?”

Tony is currently working on his own original music (because he misses being in a band, shhh it’s a secret) and is a resident DJ at Telfords’ Warehouse in Chester. He plays the first Saturday of every month under his ‘Everything is Now’ moniker.

” If you look back over the last fifty or sixty years of popular music, there’s literally millions of songs and records out there that still sound just as good today as when they were released. My mate Ed said ‘If it can be played now then it’s a now record.’ I tend to agree, but that’s only half the story. These days, when I DJ I want to blend all those hip tracks from back in the day with contemporary stuff because whether you like it or not, good music is being released all the time. I love big fat electronic beats, trippy bleeps and massive bass etc. It’s all about striking the right balance on the dancefloor… and having fun.”

Some artists to have played… Heymoonshaker, Banda Bacana, Freedom Of Expression, Cantaloop, We The Undersigned, Electric Swing Circus, Gabby Young & Other Animals, Honeyfeet

Free Entry

Happy New Year and welcome to a brand new Open Mic Night. There’s not much that has changed except we now host an acoustic jam session after midnight. Telford’s Acoustic Sessions invites any open mic’ers to stick around and have a good ol’ fiddle. Tom Durkin will be your host so if you would like any more information find him and pester him. Slots are available from 8pm.

Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Free Bar Entry – Classes £4 each or £6 for both

Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!

Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.

8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level

8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)

– Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.

Classes are just £4 for one class or £6 for two classes. Entry to social dancing after 9.30 is free.

Free Entry

Have you ever fancied performing on stage with a full live band behind you?? Weather you play guitar, bass, drums or fancy a crack at singing now’s your chance. Chester super group A Shrewdness Of Apes will be resident band inviting you to tell them your favorite blues tracks with the chance to join them on Telford’s stage for a jam session in front of a live audience. So get your thinking caps on and practice, practice, practice as you could become the next Jimi Hendrix!

Chester’s favourite party band are coming to Telford’s to play their mix of newies and oldies to set the dancefloor alight.

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

Joe Sloan and The Holograms are an Indie Rock/Pop group from Ellesmere Port. There style is an eclectic mix – The Mersey beat edge blended with the raw influences from the likes of Miles Kane, The Beatles and Eric Clapton make them a striking force to be reckoned with.

Free Entry

Jim Bazley is back on the scene after recovering from ligament damage to his finger (caused by tying a shoe lace). Lets hope it’s not affected his unbelievable guitar playing. Slots for the Open Mic are available from 8pm so head on down and strut your stuff.

we now host an acoustic jam session after midnight. Telford’s Acoustic Sessions invites any open mic’ers to stick around and have a good ol’ fiddle. Jim Bazley will be your host so if you would like any more information find him and pester him.

Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Free Bar Entry – Classes £4 each or £6 for both

Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!

Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.

8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level

8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)

– Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.

Classes are just £4 for one class or £6 for two classes. Entry to social dancing after 9.30 is free.

Free Entry

The Neon Madmen

Formed in 2011, The Neon Madmen have been doing the music ever since. With all members involved in songwriting, ignoring genre and a shared surreal take on life makes for a unique sound

The Sound You’ll Hear (aka THE SUPREME TRUTH)

GOOD STRONG MUSIC. It will be both VARIOUS and EXTRA SPESH. we do not understand the point of Rihanna but we know that Wu-Tang are forever.

Humans (aka The GOOD and the BADASS)

We play music for good people who have ears and like denim: skinny jeans, baggy jeans, cut-off into hot-pants jeans. And jeans that have Nice’d Up a Dance or two in their time

Drinking (aka The RAPTURE aka The LIBATION)

Two pint buzz is the world’s best buzz: we sell pints. Two-cocktail buzz is also excellent and often too expensive: but not here. Two for one on a variety of lip-smacking brain-shaking cocktails.

Tequila (aka The TEMPTATION of Jesus Chris)

In the year 1600, Tequila was invented by crazy a Mexican especially for lco Cestrians. THAT’s YOU! Together we will celebrate the intelligence and kindness of Don Pedro Sanchez de Tagle by letting you pay 100pesos £1 for one Tequila. Mucho Calor: No Doubt.

Free Entry Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

David, Tom and Jason have individually been in successful original
bands through the 90’s and early 00’s. Jason (Bass) have joined David & Tom since both Emlyn Franks and Steve Nash departed. Steve’s departure was a difficult decision made from all parties. He had served well and we miss him. Duncan had been filling in brilliantly for a while with Steve being off for health reasons and had quickly learnt the set. David has known Duncan for some years and when the opportunity came for a more permanent place Duncan joined as a full time member. Jason answered an advert we put out within days and came along to audition with 5 songs from the set we gave him. After 2 songs we knew we had found an amazing bass player who just fitted in straight away.
The other 3 songs ended up being just a formality really. He had the job after the second song. Both Duncan and Jason are brilliant musicians and have taken the band and sound to another level. New songs are always being rehearsed, some work, some do not work and honesty with each other as a band is essential when picking and playing new songs. MYELEVENTHTOE pride themselves on delivering the very best show they can packed full of high energy, big powerful songs and crowd participation. It’s a Rock & Roll show and we guarantee you a very entertaining and amazing night. Come and see us to see for yourself.

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

The Reads return to Telford’s with their unique mix of ambient-electro-folk-rock and much anticipation for the year ahead! 2014 saw the release of their second album “Lost at Sea” which has been well received and garnered plays on Radio 2 and Radio Wales, amongst others. They supported Turin Brakes on their last outing and have since been honing their live set especially for this gig, with a couple of nods to “Stories from the Border” (2011) along with one or two new tracks they’re looking forward to sharing. These days, gigs are few and far between, which makes an invite to play at Telford’s all the more special. They hope you can join them and make it another memorable night canal-side in Chester!

Free Entry

Brand new to the hosting scene so please be kind (or don’t) it’s Joe Hampton & Oli Townsley. Both incredibly talented musicians and songwriters this duo will be on hand to organise the running order and kick off the jam session. Open Mic slots are available form 8pm.

We now host an acoustic jam session after midnight. Telford’s Acoustic Sessions invites any open mic’ers to stick around and have a good ol’ fiddle. If you would like any more information find Joe and pester him.

CRACKLING VINYL

“pretty cool… loads of interesting sounding musicians”

Cerys Matthews, 6Music

“a set of evenings dedicated to genuinely brilliant music.”

Ian Hughes, Daily Post

Crackling Vinyl began in November 2011 as an excuse for music enthusiasts, Adam Walton, Ben ‘Soundhog’ Hayes and Elin Bach to play their favourite records in their favourite music venue (Telford’sWarehouse, Chester) far away from the weekend madness of endless requests for the kind of R&B that wasn’t pressed on Chess Records.

Crackling Vinyl evolved to encompass live music. They would bring unique and acclaimed artists to Chester for the first time, at a very affordable price: a high quality watermark in a city keen to experience the best, upcoming touring artists.

Crackling Vinyl have DJ’d and compered the Walled Garden stage at Green Man Festival for the last 3 years.

Tue 20th January Seazoo / Trecco Beis

For more information / bookings contact:

Adam Walton: themysterytour@gmail.com

Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Free Bar Entry – Classes £4 each or £6 for both

Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!

Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.

8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level

8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)

– Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.

£5 Tickets

£3 Concessions & Members

Gary Delaney is a razor sharp one-liner comedian, who is widely regarded as being the most quotable comic on the circuit. The sheer number of outstanding gags leaves the audience struggling to remember them all.

Gary is a regular guest on Mock The Week and has also appeared on Dave’s ‘One Night Stand’, Comedy Central’s ‘The Comedy Store’ and ‘Comedy Blue’, and on Channel 4’s ‘Robert’s Web’. He has also been on Radio 4’s ‘Loose Ends’, Radio 5’s ‘7 Day Saturday’ and Radio 2’s ‘Russell Kane’s Whistle-Stop Tour’.

Gary has written for many TV programmes including 8 Out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week, 10 O’Clock Live, A League of Their Own and Stand Up for the Week. Gary received two Sonys for his work for Kerrang! Radio. Gary’s Twitter feed was also nominated for a Chortle Award.

Gary is at home in venues from tour shows in arts centres and theatres, to club gigs and corporate gigs.

Gary’s debut show ‘Purist’ was a hit at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010, selling out every night and receiving many four and five star reviews. In 2013 he returned to the Edinburgh Festival with his second show ‘Gary Delaney 2: This Time It Isn’t Personal. His first national tour began in 2013, and is continuing into 2105 as new dates are constantly being added due to high demand.

“Expect a cavalcade of brilliantly inventive puns from this master of the one-liner, a craftsman to be ranked along with likes of Tim Vine and Milton Jones”– The Guardian

“razor sharp one-liners”– Daily Telegraph

“a hugely impressive collection of exquisitely crafted gags by one of Britain’s grandmasters of the one-liner”– Chortle

“Quickfire material of the very highest quality is pretty much guaranteed from the fast-thinking Delaney, a master of the deadpan one-liner”– The Guardian

“One-liner royalty”– Chortle

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Your host and compare for the night

Danny McLoughlin

Somewhat a local hero, with an amiable confident stage presence and a well written set Danny delivers material with more than just an immediate pay-off line, preferring to take the joke one or two steps further. Confident enough to take a risk on stage he does so not to the detriment of the audience, keeping them laughing along or hanging on every word. A bright future surely awaits.

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

Indigo Sky have been officially going since September 2011 when we got into a studio and recorded our first E.P. Over the first year we had tried to push into the cities around us such as Chester, Manchester and Liverpool. We succeeded and managed to work our way through the Surface Unsigned Festival in the Northern region which lead us to play venues such as Jabez Clegg, Dry Live and Academy 3 in Manchester. Out of the 200+ bands that entered in our region we managed to come 8th and just missed out on going to the international showcase.

Whilst in Surface Festival we were also in the middle of recording where the songs kept coming, in the end the project turned into an album! It took a year to complete and is now available to download on iTunes and Spotify.

The one and only Mark Henderson ladies and gentlemen… Slots available from 8pm, acoustic jam session from midnight till 1am.

Bar Entry Free

Paint Nite Tickets £45

Quote code ‘ukrocks’ to receive £20 discount

UK launch for Paint Nite events

No experience required! Just follow along while our social painter guides you step-by-step through the featured painting in about two hours. If you’re feeling creative, change the colors to suit your décor or go completely rogue. We provide all the painting supplies: a 16”x20” canvas, acrylic paint, brushes, apron, music, and a good time.

This event will be hosted by Lindsay Burgess who will be guiding you through the painting step by step. The painting featured in this event has been created by artist Brian Wintersteen especially for Paint Nite events and is called Japanese Cherry Blossom.

Paint brushes at the ready…

Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Free Bar Entry – Classes £4 each or £6 for both

Latin MANIA!
Salsa classes and Latin dance night

Telfords has hosted a salsa club in Chester for over 15 years and we’re now launching Latin MANIA!

Learn Cuban salsa lessons every Wednesday with Banderas (Havana, Cuba), Lee Baker and Rachel Forshaw. Lessons are provided for all levels of ability, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. You don’t need a partner – you’ll change partners all the time in a friendly, fun group.

8.00 pm: Separate classes for Beginners and Improver level

8.45 pm: Intermediate level partnerwork and Improver (and above) rueda (Cuban group dance, performed in a circle or ‘wheel’)

– Beginner classes introduce you to salsa music, teach the basic footwork steps and let you take your first steps dancing with a partner.

Classes are just £4 for one class or £6 for two classes. Entry to social dancing after 9.30 is free.

Free Entry

Nish Goyal

Nish Goyal, born February 1986 is a British Singer/Songwriter from Chester, UK. Having graduated in Law, he worked as a trainee legal consultant in the city before deciding to pursue stockbroking in Frankfurt, Germany. After a few years in the corporate sector, Nish decided to make his passion, his career. Hence, the brand ‘Nish Goyal’ was formed in early 2011. His music has a very indie punk feel with a touch of folk in there, and is unique in its own way.

Although he started playing music and writing from a young age, Nish kicked off to a great start with his 1st album ‘A Little Validation’, which consists of 11 songs including the favourites ‘NDE’ and ‘My Hill’. This album shows exactly what Nish is all about. The lyrics of all the songs have a huge range and mixture of emotions, bound to get the listener into the ‘feel’ of every song.

With the success from his 1st album, the 2nd project ‘the Hedonist EP’ was launched soon after and consists of the absolute favourites, ‘Sleep’, ‘Exactly What This Is’ and ‘Girl in the Black Dress’. As mentioned by the post on the blog My Random Jukebox, “He has this talent to use his own life experience to mould the lyrics to tell some great and at times humorous stories.”

Being a world traveller the past 10 years, Nish has played in gigs and open mics all around the world, including countries/states in Australia, Europe, America and Asia. His fans can look forward to the release of his third project ‘the Rage EP’ in early 2015, which is an 8 track EP focused on the issues faced us in the modern age.

The Sound You’ll Hear (aka THE SUPREME TRUTH)

GOOD STRONG MUSIC. It will be both VARIOUS and EXTRA SPESH. we do not understand the point of Rihanna but we know that Wu-Tang are forever.

Humans (aka The GOOD and the BADASS)

We play music for good people who have ears and like denim: skinny jeans, baggy jeans, cut-off into hot-pants jeans. And jeans that have Nice’d Up a Dance or two in their time

Drinking (aka The RAPTURE aka The LIBATION)

Two pint buzz is the world’s best buzz: we sell pints. Two-cocktail buzz is also excellent and often too expensive: but not here. Two for one on a variety of lip-smacking brain-shaking cocktails.

Tequila (aka The TEMPTATION of Jesus Chris)

In the year 1600, Tequila was invented by crazy a Mexican especially for lco Cestrians. THAT’s YOU! Together we will celebrate the intelligence and kindness of Don Pedro Sanchez de Tagle by letting you pay 100pesos £1 for one Tequila. Mucho Calor: No Doubt.

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

By The Sea are a Wirral-based indie rock band. after a short run of sold-out 7? singles, the band released their debut LP on november 12th via dell’orso records (CD), great pop supplement (LP) and digitally through AWAL distribution. the album was recorded and produced with close friend Bill Ryder-Jones (Domino Records) in various bedrooms, garages and churches. the album hopes to recall the sound and culture of the seminal 1980s indie bands that helped inspire it.

“A swoonsomely addictive wash of glistening synths, impassive sighs and effervescent jangles” – The Line Of Best Fit

“Solidly crafted melodic pop” – Uncut

“By The Sea’s debut wraps itself warmly around ears; the melodies and joyful playing help create windswept hymns which soak blissfully into your pores. Tinged with melancholy but flushed with gorgeous hope, this is an album of sunshine and rain”. – Fake DIY

“By The Sea make music that can’t contain itself, that is so bursting with joy it sounds like it is tripping over itself in its desire to get out of the speakers.” – Fred Perry Subculture

Gulf

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

Bridging the gap between the intensity and momentum of a rock band, and the clinical electro loops of dance floor hypnosis, Chemistry Lane surf waves of paranoia that redirect your gaze toward the illusion, like slight of hand in reverse.

Influences range far and wide from shoegaze and orchestral post-rock bands like Slowdive, Spiritualized and Godspeed! You Black Emperor, to new wave groups such and Talking Heads and Echo and the Bunnymen. Recent appreciation for bands such as Deerhunter and The Phantom Band have allowed the group to unlock a new direction.

Chemistry Lane combine the dreaminess of experimental indie with a layered instrumental depth of sound that results in powerful, almost hypnotic melodies and warm spine tingling atmospheres.

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